Dueling platforms. Or, probably not quite what they meant.
Michael Ignatieff’s handlers have been encouraging him to be a little bit more of a risk taker lately. Do the usual politiciany stuff, but rachit it up a notch. Find an issue that’s important to Canadian voters, then drive it home and in so doing, separate himself from the current, conservative government. Which he’s definitely done, albeit sans any real detail. And he took the green energy approacch to boot.
Just one small problem Ignatieff didn’t look like he was all too ready to have to solve. On the same day as he made his speech in Vancouver about just how bad off the country really is energy-wise, it was released that prime minister Stephen Harper, while in Alberta today, would be announcing his own attempt at greenness. Specificly, a carbon capture/storage plan. What worries me, and what should worry Michael Ignatieff, is we know about as much about Harper’s plan from that press release as we do about Ignatieff’s plan from his speech. There’s no dollar commitments here, no specifics on exactly what we’d do–no anything that would actually interest the average Canadian voter. There is one noteable difference, though. The speech by Harper hasn’t happened yet. So, he can still improve. Ignatieff? Maybe next time.
